From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 17 07:42:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8948D16A4CE for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:42:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from stjohn.ac.th (ns.stjohn.ac.th [202.21.144.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D12AE43D1F for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:42:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th) Received: from tulip.stjohn.ac.th [203.151.134.104] by stjohn.ac.th with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.14) id ADEE16D00BA; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:42:38 +0700 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20041217142641.00a3aec0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: stjohn.stjohn.ac.th:mcrogerm@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:39:41 +0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Roger Merritt Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-923156C Subject: Migrating from 4.10 to 5.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:42:39 -0000 I don't know if this is a FAQ, but I haven't seen an explicit discussion. I've seen some passing mentions that it's going to be difficult or impossible to upgrade from 4-STABLE to 5-STABLE, when they finally decide 5.x is the new STABLE fork. I've just received a new, faster box with a *much* bigger hard drive which I plan to use as the gateway server in our computer lab. My first thought was that I would just install minimal 4.10 and then copy the rest of the old disk over (dump and restore) because that's what I did when I got a new hard drive for that machine. But I think I've seen people comment that it would be better to go ahead and install 5.3 now. I know how to use ssh and tar to copy over the LAN, but I'm worried about the configuration of my current binaries. Still, it *might* not be that much trouble to reinstall all my binaries and that would probably get rid of any stuff I never use. I haven't seen anything in the freebsd-stable mailing list to make me think 5.3 is dangerous, but it's still called CURRENT, which makes me nervous. I guess I'm just looking for recommendations -- should I install 5.3 now or stick with 4.10? -- Roger -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.5.4 - Release Date: 12/15/04